The beauty of the internet is such that every opinion has become worthless; this goes doubly so for those with publish buttons on (relatively, we're humble) major websites. For every opinion, there's a matching counter-opinion, and that's great. Yesterday, we linked to an article by Mark Pilgrim about tinkerers and the iPad, and of course, someone was bound to disagree with that one.

It is truly ironic (and I am probably not the only one to point it out) that the 'Rise of Apple' was triggered by a Super Bowl commercial we all know representing an Orwellian revolt against control. Now, Apple has taken the role of the controlling faction.

Their continued demand that consumers cannot make our own decisions about what we can and cannot do/use on/with the devices that we have purchased and own is appalling.

You have to ask yourself how the Apple devices 'free' us when someone has to jailbreak their iTouch to get it to play OGG/Vorbis files (completely 'free' and 'open' audio compression libraries). Apparently this is because Apple will not support such an application in the App Store that competes with their iTunes music offerings.